Four Horsemen

Four Horsemen

The Four Horsemen usually refers to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who are the forces of man's destruction as described in the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation.

Other uses:

In comic books:
*Horsemen of Apocalypse, a team of superhumans who serve supervillain Apocalypse
*"4 Horsemen", a four-issue limited series under the DC Comics Vertigo imprint
*Four Horsemen Studios, action figure sculptors for McFarlane Toys
*In Dreamwaves' series, the Four Horsemen were former Autobots and Decepticons turned into minions of Unicron. They were Rhinox (War), Terrorsaur (Famine), Airazor (Death) and Cheetor (Pestilence).

In Entertainment:
*"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", 1921 silent movie
*"Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", 1962 film
*The Four Horsemen were a group of Immortals on the television show "".
* Four Horsemen, the name given to the four-man alliance of contestants Dre Herd, Edgardo Rivera, Mookie Lee and Alex Angarita, in the reality television series "".
* Four Horseman, the name of the 4 leaders of the ultranationalist party in the 4th game of the Call of Duty, .
* The Horsemen of the Apocralypse from the Discworld series of books by Terry Pratchett

In sports:
*Four Horsemen (professional wrestling), group of professional wrestlers
*Four Horsemen (football), football players from University of Notre Dame in 1924

In music:
*The Four Horsemen (song), a song on Metallica's 1983 album "Kill 'Em All"
*The Four Horsemen (song), a song on Judas Priest's 2008 album "Nostradamus"
*"The Four Horsemen", an Aphrodite's Child song from their album "666"
*The Four Horsemen (band), a late '80s / half '90s hard rock band from Hollywood
*The Four Horsemen (rap group), Rap group formed by Canibus, Killah Priest, Ras Kass & Kurupt
*The Four Horsemen, sound-poetry group in Toronto • see Steve McCaffery
*"Four Horsemen (song)", a song on The Clash's 1979 album "London Calling"
*"The Four Horsemen", an album by Ultramagnetic MC's
*"Four Horsemen of 2012", a song by Klaxons, from the album "Myths Of The Near Future" (Also "4 Horsemen of 2012" from the "Xan Valleys" EP)

In science:
* Senior scientists and consultants to NASA during Apollo who advocated a "coherent approach" to the science of moon exploration: Bob Walker, Prof. Physics Washington University in St. Louis; Jim Arnold, Prof. Astrophysics UCSD; Paul Werner Gast, Prof. Geochemistry Columbia University; Gerry Wasserburg, Prof. Geochemistry CalTech.

Other:
*"The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is a woodcut made by Albrecht Dürer
*Four Horsemen (Supreme Court), United States Supreme Court conservative justices during the New Deal era
* Former west coast boutique investment banks: Robertson Stephens, Alex. Brown & Sons, Hambrecht & Quist, and Montgomery Securities
*Four Horsemen (drink)
*"The Four Horseman" (2008) is the first episode of a series of videos entitled "Discussions with Richard Dawkins"; Discussants are prominent atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett
* The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen, collective nickname for Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey ( [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070501588.html d.2008] ), Herbert Maisel and James McDermott, who, while serving in the U.S. Army in the fifties, discovered and published the first accurate basic strategy for Blackjack, using only desk calculators.


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